inscribing

There were blank leaves for the inscribing of prayers, and one was written out in a good bold hand.

After inscribing our names in a book we went back to our midday meal.

Calls of farewell, final preparations, leaving cards and inscribing my name in visiting-books, occupy the greater part of it.

A winged genius sits at his feet, and is inscribing his name on a tablet.

How is it then that any man emerged from the Oxford of this period and succeeded in inscribing his name on the roll of fame?